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Google is announcing more features that are being expanded to include all Google One subscribers. The new additions include VPN access for every Google One member, not just those with Pixel devices or Premium plans. The company is also launching a “dark web report” so you can figure out where your sensitive…Read more...

On The Mandalorian, the goal is clear. In order to be redeemed, the main character must travel to the mines of Mandalore and bathe in the living waters. Only then can he rejoin his people and be forgiven for taking off his helmet. It seemed like a goal that would take some time to reach, but nope: episode two of The…Read more...

Imagine: you’re driving your brand new Tesla down the highway when suddenly, the steering wheel slumps from the steering column into your hands. Or, don’t simply imagine it, instead look at these images posted by a Tesla driver who reported going through just that at the end of January.

io9 has highlighted the work of best-selling fantasy author Chloe Gong in the past—last year, we announced and shared an excerpt from her adult debut, Immortal Longings, which is out in July. But Gong has another 2023 release: Foul Heart Huntsman, the second book in her Foul Lady Fortune duology following the…Read more...

Researchers studying a distant star forming within a dusty cloud have found an abundance of water in its immediate vicinity, which could have implications for the origins of the water in our own solar system.

Earlier this year, Amazon planned to lay off 18,000 employees. Now a leaked audio from the company appears to indicate that the company may regret that decision. In the audio, an HR executive chews on a strategy to rehire employees that have been laid off.

Google’s finally rolling back its unpopular decree against any kinds of profanity in videos, making it harder for any creators used to offering colorful sailor’s speech in videos from monetizing content on behalf of its beloved ad partners. The only thing is, Google still seems to think the “f-word” is excessively…Read more...

Has Marvel’s Blade movie found its new director? New set photos from The Penguin tease Cristin Milioti’s Sofia Falcone. Plus, a Lucifer star joins The Walking Dead: Dead City, and what’s coming on Wolf Pack. Spoilers, ho!

Don’t worry, helpless insurance companies: the Texas Legislature is here to protect you from big, bad environmentalists. A Texas state senator said during a panel discussion last week at a conference put on by a prominent climate-denier think tank that the state legislature would focus on rolling out legislation this…Read more...

As the first subsidiary of eBay to attempt to unionize, TCGplayer—a site where collectors can buy and sell any number of collectible cards used in games like Yu-Gi-Oh, Magic: The Gathering, and Pokémon—knew that it was going to face opposition from management. Now, only a week after its successful supermajority vote…Read more...

Twitter CEO and supreme overlord Elon Musk apologized to former employee Haraldur Thorleifsson for mocking his disability, proving that even tech’s biggest villain has a heart, or at the very least the sense to smell a huge incoming lawsuit.Read more...

DuckDuckGo launched a beta version of an AI search tool powered by ChatGPT Wednesday called DuckAssist. The addition to the company’s privacy-focused search engine uses ChatGPT’s language parsing capability to generate answers scraped from Wikipedia and related sources like the Encyclopedia Britannica. The tool is…Read more...

My conversations with friends have devolved to the point where we barely communicate. Rather than express our love or commiserate about the suffering that is the human experience, our daily interactions are a tit-for-tat over for who can make the best joke, or spot the best meme. The meme wars are fierce, and when all…Read more...

The ending of a Scream movie is always the best part. It’s what you’ve been waiting for: the reveal of who’s behind that now iconic mask and why they’re targeting the teenagers of Woodsboro. Scream VI, however, bucks that trend. It has an excellent ending to be sure (don’t worry, we won’t even come close to spoiling…Read more...

The Federal Trade Commission has been on a mission to compel Twitter to turn over internal communications and documents related to its ongoing layoffs, the Wall Street Journal reports.Read more...

What’s better than a tale of vampiric horror? A tale of old-timey vampiric horror, and one of the hunter becoming the hunted—which is right where Tim Seeley, Aaron Campbell, Jim Terry, and Triona Farrell’s West of Sundown happily establishes its story of 19th century terror. Want to whet your appetite? Come read the…Read more...

Several weeks after a journalist accused the U.S. government of being behind the Nord Stream pipeline’s destruction, sources within the government are telling the New York Times that a “pro-Ukrainian group” is actually responsible for the brazen act of international sabotage.

Pharmedica USA LLC is warning consumers who purchased its Purely Soothing 15% MSM eye drops to stop using the product and return it to the distributor. A recall was issued in compliance with the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) because of a non-sterility issue with the eye drops.Read more...

Elon Musk doesn’t have a great track record of saying things that then come true. Or, put another way, he loves to make promises and then break them. Or, put yet another way: the man is full of it. For instance, he’s repeatedly said his biotech device company, Neuralink, is nearing human trial approval. Spoiler…Read more...

Twitter has seen its share of political bot campaigns, but since spring 2022 there’s been a long-running, highly prolific bot campaign proliferating through Twitter to support former President Donald Trump. Even if you first thought it’s just the Russians again, a new report suggests these fake accounts were created a…Read more...

Following the release of an independent review examining the delay of NASA’s Psyche mission, the space agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) says it’s making progress in addressing the broader issues at the institution that went beyond its delayed asteroid mission.Read more...

There’s good news for all those folks who picked up the last version of the Pixel Buds Pro. Google’s finally catching up to Apple and announced it will add spatial audio to its flagship earbuds devices. Unfortunately for all those folks who went for cheaper options, less expensive buds like the Pixel Buds A-Series…Read more...

A team of scientists appears to be on track toward developing an effective treatment for drunkenness. In research out this week, they were able to quickly sober up drunk mice by boosting their levels of a naturally produced hormone called FGF21. More research will need to be done, but the team believes that FGF21…Read more...

Panic made a handful of announcements today for its almost-too-quirky-for-its-own-good Playdate handheld. Depending on your needs, they may either entice you to finally grab one, or have you just sticking with your smartphone for casual gaming. The Playdate is getting a price increase, but also its own…Read more...

Netflix has been going back and forth on different pricing options and tiers in recent months as the OG streaming service tries to keep up with a global rise in competition and subscriber losses and gains. Most recently, Netflix has slashed subscription costs for many countries including Kenya, Nicaragua, Indonesia,…Read more...

There may be a totally non-violent reason that an orca near Iceland was spotted caring for a pilot whale calf. But given what we know of orcas—a species infamous for breaking the spines of dolphins and eating the livers of unlucky great white sharks—you’ll forgive us for being a little suspicious.Read more...

The quest to be an empress for Rachel and Sarah—along with their gardening vibes—came to a head in the season two finale of YOLO: Silver Destiny on Adult Swim. io9 sat down with the animated series’ creator Michael Cusack and cast members Sarah Bishop (Sarah) and Todor Manojlovic (Rachel) to talk about this season’s…Read more...

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People and fish alike along Florida’s west coast are feeling the effects of an ongoing red tide. The toxic algae bloom is making both humans and sea life sick as it persists along nearly 150 miles of the Sunshine State’s coastline.

Even when you’re going into battle with garishly colored plastic blasters loaded with painless foam darts, the element of surprise can still be advantageous. Sneaking up on your enemy with a Nerf gun in hand isn’t exactly stealthy, but doing the same with a handful of cleverly engineered self-firing darts? No one will…Read more...

Gigi Sohn, Joe Biden’s pick to end a nearly two-year deadlock in the Federal Communications Commission, withdrew her nomination Tuesday. The exit, which Sohn blamed on stonewalling from dark money groups, means the FCC will remain without any one-party majority for the foreseeable future. That 2-2 commissioner…Read more...

Things are quickly shifting over at Lucasfilm with the Star Wars feature slate. Variety reports that Patty Jenkins and Kevin Feige’s movies are officially shelved. Taika Waiti remains standing with the plan to star in his own movie.Read more...

Most computer glitches can be resolved with a simple question, “Have you tried turning it off and on again?” It seems this simple instruction also applies to computers on board spacecraft orbiting thousands of miles away.Read more...

Two of the greatest memories of our childhoods—an adolescent casino and an antiquated data storage format—are still colliding to this very day. A Chuck E. Cheese employee gave his TikTok viewers the low-down on how the pizzeria/arcade combo still uses floppy disks to load its animatronic shows.

Emily Tesh’s Some Desperate Glory takes the time-honored tradition of space rebels and turns teenage horribleness on its head. In Tesh’s own words, this novel is “about being the very worst person imaginable, and then trying to be better. It’s a book about the end of the world, and what happens after. It’s a book…Read more...

An ADHD-friendly browser launched today and features tools to better help those easily distracted minimize the noise online. Dubbed a “productivity browser,” Sidekick protects the user’s data while also aiming to help focus their attention by making “the internet distraction-free.”

In an attempt to optimize communication in space across vast distances, a team of researchers from the University of Arizona will rely on a unique antenna for CatSat, a small satellite that will study the ionosphere. The antenna resembles a space-age beachball that can beam information to Earth at high speeds.

Marvel Studios’ cherry-picking of Netflix’s old shows continues and this time it’s punishing. After months and months of rumors, it now seems that Jon Bernthal will indeed reprise his role as the Punisher on Marvel’s upcoming Disney+ show Daredevil: Born Again.Read more...

Whew, what a Zine Month, huh? While we’re back to the usual Gaming Shelf reporting, we’ve got no lack of great games to play right now and some incredible RPGs that are still crowdfunding. We’ve also got a stellar exclusive for Gaming Shelf readers from the highly anticipated and blockbuster funded Shadowdark RPG!Read more...

New documents revealed by the ACLU and shared with Gizmodo show the lengths FBI and Pentagon officials went to develop “truly unconstrained” facial recognition capable of being deployed in public street cameras, mobile drones, and cops’ body cameras.

Earth’s host star can be quite temperamental, compelling astronomers to launch satellites and probes on missions to keep a close watch of the Sun’s massive flares. But instruments pointed towards the Sun have a tendency to acquire cloudy vision as the result of a mysterious layer that’s puzzled scientists for years.Read more...

After five straight years of Star Wars movies, the galaxy far, far away has been off the big screen since 2019. That’s likely to change in 2025—but who’s making the next movie, and what’s it about? Is it coming from Taika Waititi? Damon Lindelof? Kevin Feige? We’ll find out on April 7.Read more...

It’s been so long since we’ve heard anything about Apple TV+’s adaptation of Hugh Howey’s incredibly popular Silo series that I had forgotten it was still happening. So it was a delightful surprise when this first trailer for the show suddenly appeared, and it’s even more delightful that the post-apocalyptic mystery…Read more...

If you couldn’t get enough of paying for content that was once free, get ready for some of your favorite TikTok creators to start asking you to cough up money before accessing some of their videos.Read more...

These days, franchise sequels can take years to come to fruition. Writers toiling over the scripts. Long stints of pre-production in hopes it’ll make grueling, pressure-packed shoots go off without a hitch. Then there’s post-production, which includes effects, music, you name it. Again, for most big franchises, this…Read more...

The Ukrainian space agency is not too happy with the results of an investigation into the Vega-C rocket anomaly, which blamed a faulty part made in Ukraine for the mission failure.Read more...

In a hobby like Warhammer, you’re always going to end up with more plastic than you reasonably know what to do with. Whether it’s a sea of gray models you never got around to doing anything with, or the sprues all those models came on, any complete project is always going to come with a lot of waste—and Games Workshop…Read more...

Apple has this feeling that is indeed so appealing, and that feeling is that they need to add “yellow” to its slate of iPhone case colors. Alright, sing it with me, kids: “ring, ring, ring, ring, ring, ring, ring, banana phone.”Read more...

Amazon is reportedly gearing up to launch an NFT marketplace, likely dubbed “Amazon NFT Marketplace” or “Amazon Digital Marketplace,” that may be available to customers in April.

The easiest way to differentiate a Windows laptop from an Apple one is to either check the logo on the lid, or find the collection of Intel, AMD, Microsoft, and Nvidia stickers near the keyboard: the telltale branding of the PC world. If, for some reason, you feel your MacBook’s clean finish would be better off with …Read more...